John Rodger Gray

John Rodger Gray, (9 January 1913 – 9 August 1984) was a Scottish minister serving in Dunblane Cathedral who was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1977.

Life

He was born on 9 January 1913 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was educated locally before going to High School of Glasgow, a private school in Glasgow. He studied economics at Glasgow University graduating in 1934. He then studied Divinity for three years, before doing further postgraduate study under a Commonwealth Fellowship at both Yale University and Princeton University in the United States. He graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) in 1938 and from Princeton with a Master of Theology (ThM) degree in 1939. He was select preacher at the University of Oxford in 1977. He died later that year, on 9 August 1984. She was author of "Annus Mirabilis, Memories of a Moderator's Wife".

Their three sons are the MP James Gray, the diplomat Charles Gray and Lt Cdr David Gray Royal Navy

Publications

Something to say to the Congregation : The Sermons of the Rev John R. Gray 1961-1983